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India Braces Against Phishing, Ransomware Surge and Alert Fatigue, Urging Swift Adoption of AI, and Automation for Security Operations

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Fortinet®, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, has revealed the outcomes of a new survey conducted by IDC on the state of Security Operations (SecOps) in the Asia-Pacific region. The survey, commissioned by Fortinet, provides valuable insights into the current SecOps landscape, emphasizing the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation. It explores various aspects, including prevalent security practices, attack frequency and impact, detection and response times, alert fatigue, the status, and impact of automation in SecOps workflows, and challenges related to skill development within the SecOps domain. Key findings from India include:

 

Current Security Challenges: Threats and Team Readiness

 

  • Most Common Cyber Threats: Phishing and Insider threats are the most predominant cyber threat in India, with Approximately 50% of organizations ranking them as their top concerns. The top five threats include phishing, insider threats, ransomware, unpatched vulnerabilities, and identity theft.

 

  • Ransomware Surge: Ransomware incidents have doubled across India, with 70% of organizations reporting at least a 2X increase in 2023, compared to 2022. Phishing and malware are the primary attack vectors. Other significant vectors include social engineering attacks, insider threats, and zero-day exploits.

 

  • Insider Threats and Remote Work: 88% of the respondents feel that Remote work has led to an increase in insider threat incidents. Insufficient training, lack of employee care, and inadequate communication contribute to this surge, emphasizing the need to address human factors in cybersecurity.

 

  • Resourcing IT Security Teams: Only 44% of businesses have dedicated IT resources for security teams. This augments the challenges faced by organizations in strengthening their security measures.

 

  • Impact of Emerging Technologies: Hybrid work, AI, and IT/OT system convergence pose significant challenges. Cloud technology adoption emerges as a primary challenge, impacting organizational vulnerability to cyber threats.

 

SecOps SOS: Struggles with Alert Fatigue and Threat Containment

 

  • Threat Containment and Preparedness: Approximately one out of three…

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Scrut Automation Launches ‘Risk Management’ for Cloud-Based Companies | Your Money

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BENGALURU, India–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 1, 2022–

Scrut Automation, a leading compliance automation platform, unveiled Risk Management, a first-of-its-kind risk assessment tool, to further bolster its offerings in the compliance automation industry.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220731005100/en/

Risk Management By Scrut Automation (Graphic: Business Wire)

Larger organizations use legacy Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) tools to manage the risk assessment and management processes, but these are difficult to adopt for mid-market SaaS and Fintech companies and often lack relevant integrations. Scrut Risk Management is an advanced, easy-to-use, lightweight product that aims to help its customers gain complete visibility into their risks, allowing them to prioritize and manage risks better. Scrut Risk Management does so through:

  • Automated risk identification: Prebuilt library of risks guides organizations in identifying relevant risk areas and uncovering often-overlooked risks.
  • Ready Integrations: With out-of-box integrations, the tool connects across an organization’s application landscape to identify potential risk areas .
  • Real-time risk register: A real-time risk register gives a comprehensive view of all organizational risks, strategies and actions adopted to manage them, and residual risks.
  • Mitigating controls monitoring: The tool has automated workflows for tracking the implementation of and evidence collection for mitigating controls.
  • Risk assessment reports: The tool generates automated risk assessment reports that can be readily shared with compliance auditors for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR, and other infosec frameworks.

Kush Kaushik, Co-founder of Scrut Automation, said: “Legacy enterprise risk management tools are bulky to use and often overkill for growth stage and mid-market startups. Scrut Risk Management is built to bring enterprise-grade risk assessment to this segment through an automated risk observatory around multiple cyber assets, processes, and endpoints.”

For more on Scrut Risk Management, please visit their blog post.

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Computer Society of Zimbabwe is hosting a cyber security, digital forensics & robotic automation winter school

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Computer Society of ZImbabwe Winter Digital School

The Computer Society of Zimbabwe (CSZ) is hosting a Winter School programme running under the theme “Navigating the Digital Securely”, from the 29th of June to 2 July 2022 at Holiday Inn, Bulawayo.

The CSZ Bulawayo Chapter Chair, Percy Sibanda, who is the convenor, said that the event is a capacity-building programme on Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, and Robotic Process Automation. The target audience is ICT practitioners in national and regional entities, service and solution providers, researchers and academia.

Computer Society of ZImbabwe Winter Digital School.

The objectives of the programme are to

  • Offer hands-on learning and practical insights on Cyber Security, Digital Forensics and Robotic Process Automation
  • Broaden the delegates’ knowledge of information systems security best practices and modern security tools.
  • Enhance their awareness of new trends of how cybercrimes are being committed and how they can be mitigated
  • Impart knowledge for automating business processes in a secure manner
  • Offer delegates an opportunity for high-level networking and sharing relevant experiences.

All those interested in participating in the Computer Society of Zimbabwe Winter School can register with the link here

Also read – Here’s your citizen’s guide to the Cyber Security & Data Protection Act

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